hosting

Finally my blog is back and running again after almost a whole week of being down. My web host wasn't much help as with my previous host - both blaming bad coding on my site or even more ridiculously, my computer. "Websites run off a server which in this case is located with your company. How can it be my computer?" No response from their...

20th February 2010, 23:35 GMT Update: Finally. If you see this message then you're now at my new domain and host. It was pretty troublesome trying to import the big SQL database over because phpMyAdmin wouldn't accept anything bigger than 2MB. I ended up trying to figure out how to import it directly via an SSH session and the command...

My blog's going to have some downtime again only this time, it has nothing to do with used up bandwidth. My host Daily will be moving its data centre between 10pm, Sunday 3rd May and 7am, Monday 4th May BST so my blog will be inaccessible during that time. Guess I'll just have to prepare my posts offline. I wonder if they offer any...

Ouch! Looks like the decision to host 227MB of those unofficial Trauma Centre OSTs privately really hit my bandwidth usage this month, eating up the full 30GB allowance and knocking my blog offline since around 08:30 BST. I don't see many hits to those posts though, which means a lot of people must have been "leeching" off my blog even...

It's been a year since I decided to go for paid hosting and I've yet to make good use of the extra flexibility that having a free account such as at Wordpress.com doesn't have, i.e. developing my own web application and writing my own code. Well, at least I don't have to depend on free image hosts anymore or worry about lots of broken images...